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Bringing in a liberal hack from Minnesota? This is shameful. The Mets need to do the right thing and hire Chris Christie as GM #HireChrisChristieAsGMofMetsNOW #ChrisChristieForMetsGM #LibsOfMLB #ConservativeHate https://t.co/QT2FV4xXKw

September 23, 2026 at 5:02 PM

Katrina deVille

@katrinadeville.bsky.social

This checks so many boxes.
#stopthecruelty #dontbeadick #maga #republicancruelty #conservativehate

Aldous Tyler @tmitmitmi.com · Mar 27

If you ever hear the phrase "fascism is aesthetics as politics," that's what this post is talking about.

It's not about being tough on crime, because the toughest measure you could take against "crime" is to alleviate poverty, and increase access to education, healthcare and social mobility.

Averagesalt_Miner · 7h

There’s something uniquely perverse about cruelty performed by people who will never experience the consequences of their own ideology. Unlike the Somali pirates or the Taliban - groups operating in extreme conditions, driven by survival, ideology, or desperation - the architects of modern American cruelty live in comfort. They do not suffer. They are not struggling for food or security. And yet, they choose cruelty, not as a necessity, but as a luxury.

This is performative suffering, an aesthetic of toughness projected by people who have never known real hardship. It’s the lawmakers who gut welfare programs while vacationing in gated resorts. It’s the TV pundits who sneer at working-class struggles from air-conditioned studios. It’s bureaucrats who deny migrants soap and toothpaste - not out of logistical necessity, but because cruelty itself is a flex, a demonstration of power detached from material reality.

It has no greater purpose beyond LOOKING ruthless. It is the political equivalent of posing in tactical gear without ever seeing combat, of calling for war from the safety of a country club. It is not the brutality of warriors or the desperation of insurgents. It is the decadence of empire - violence for the sake of self-image, cruelty as a luxury good.

March 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM

Casey Parks

@handle.invalid

Some background on tomorrow's SCOTUS hearing on trans healthcare. Throughout the state hearings, Republicans treated gender dysphoria as if it were an illusion. A co-sponsor of the House bill described transitioning as a “fiction” and “fantasy.” Here is another Rep:
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